Anne Arundel County police officers were called around 9:30 a.m. to the Safeway grocery store in the 2600 block of Housley Road in Annapolis. The store's general manager and the grocery manager told police they had been pepper-sprayed by one of the assailants.

The managers told police that store employees confronted two women who tried to leave the store without paying for several DVDs. The managers said the assailants pushed the employees out of the way, sprayed pepper spray and fled in a silver Dodge vehicle.

An officer patrolling the area saw a vehicle matching the description and stopped the car, at which time, police said the passenger fled. Both women were taken into custody, and the DVDs, worth approximately $260 in total, were recovered.

One of the women, Martina Christine Queen, initially gave officers a false name but later provided her true identity and was found to have an open arrest warrant on her. Police said she was recently profiled on the Anne Arundel County Police Department’s #WantedWednesday feature for a similar crime.

Queen, 29, of Crofton, was charged with theft, assault, resisting arrest, fleeing and eluding and false statement to police.

The second woman, Amber Ann Abrams, 28, of Crofton, was charged with theft and driving on a suspended driver's license.